“FANTASTIC” POWER
ALLIED AIR SUPPORT (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. German newspapers admit the overwhelming power of the Allied Air Forces in Normandy, and that the British and American troops are not inexperienced, but largely are already hardened by battles elsewhere, says the Stockholm correspondent of The Times. A German military officer writes that never has the young, Inexperienced German soldier had such a nervetrying baptism as he is undergoing on the invasion front.
The newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says that the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 was composed of the best welltrained troops, but received a shock from Ithe Luftwaffe dominating the skies. The German soldiers are now similarly placed, being confronted by incomparably greater superiority in men, weapons and material, especially in facing unprecedentedly enormous air forces.
Another Berlin comment described the Allied air effort as “ fantastic.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25565, 19 June 1944, Page 5
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